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Potentiating Health and the Crisis of the Immune System

Integrative Approaches to the Prevention and Treatment of Modern Diseases

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Editors:
  1. Avshalom Mizrahi

    1. The Israeli College of Complementary Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  2. Stephen Fulder

    1. Consultancy and Research Services, Clil Village, Israel

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  3. Nimrod Sheinman

    1. The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, Kadima, Israel

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. General Concepts

    1. Updating Flexner

      • Elliott S. Dacher
      Pages 1-15

    2. The New Science of Health

      • Robert Lafaille
      Pages 17-30

    3. Health and Healing

      • R. Newman Turner
      Pages 31-37

    4. Limits of Specialization and Integrated Approaches

      • Herbert Pietschmann
      Pages 39-45

    5. The Health Consequences of Competing Conventional and Alternative Definitions of Health

      • Stephen John Fulder
      Pages 47-60

    6. Towards a New Epistemology for Health and Healing

      • Willis Harman, Marilyn Schlitz
      Pages 61-69

    7. The Wounded Body

      • Guillermo Michel
      Pages 71-78

    8. Food as Medicine for Body and Soul

      • Geraldine Mitton
      Pages 79-82

  5. Therapeutic Programs

    1. Methionine Enkephalin

      • Nicholas P. Plotnikoff
      Pages 193-198
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With all the enormous resources that are invested in medicine, it is sometimes a mystery why there is so much sickness still in evidence. Our life span, though higher than at any time in history, has now leveled off and has not significantly increased in the last two generations. There is a one-third increase in long-term illness in the last 20 years and a 44% increase in cancer incidence, which are not related to demographic issues. In some modern countries, the level of morbidity (defined as days off work because of sickness) has increased by two thirds in this time. Despite $1 trillion spent on cancer research in 20 years, the "War On Cancer" has recently been pronounced a complete failure by the u. s. President's Cancer Panel. Evidently we still have a long way to go. The goal of "Health for All by the Year 2000" as the World Health Organization has put it, is another forgotten dream. As ever, the answer will be found in breaking out of the old philosophical patterns and discovering the new, as yet unacceptable concepts. The problems of medicine today require a Kuhnian breakthrough into new paradigms, and new ways of thinking. And these new ways will not be mere variations of the old, but radical departures. This book, and the conference upon which it was based, is part of a search for these new pathways.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Israeli College of Complementary Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Avshalom Mizrahi

  • Consultancy and Research Services, Clil Village, Israel

    Stephen Fulder

  • The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, Kadima, Israel

    Nimrod Sheinman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Potentiating Health and the Crisis of the Immune System

  • Book Subtitle: Integrative Approaches to the Prevention and Treatment of Modern Diseases

  • Editors: Avshalom Mizrahi, Stephen Fulder, Nimrod Sheinman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0059-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45602-2Published: 30 June 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0061-6Published: 31 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0059-3Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 286

  • Topics: Oncology, Immunology, Nutrition, Health Psychology

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